American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be.
A Christian is someone who shares the sufferings of God in the world.
When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
Wherever there are sinners, the weak, the sorrowful, the poor in the world, that is where God goes.
God can make a new beginning with people whenever God pleases, but not people with God. Therefore, people cannot make a new beginning at all; they can only pray for one. Where people are on their own and live by their own devices, there is only the old, the past.
The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people.
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. . . . . We must not. . . . . assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.
If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.
Old friends are memories personified.
The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.
Feminism, in all fields, has yet to produce a single scholar of the intellectual rank of scores of these learned men [e. g. , Bruno Snell, Albin Lesky, Denys Page] in the German and British academic tradition.